to the reality of knute rockne and george gipp. hollywood has the power to make bruce willis see dead people, to allow will smith to travel through time. it also has the power of making these two sinners saints on the silver screen. this is a lot like the controversy over football today. my book is about perception versus reality. we have a perception about football based on the mass media that the game is more dangerous than ever, that players die young if they play for a long time, that there's this epidemic of suicide in the nfl. and what i do in "the war on football" is i get the science and i tried over, the speculation with the science on the game, and the stories behind the game. and the reality is that the perception that's been created by the mass media with football over the last two years is almost in every instance wrong. and in some cases just, you know, 180° wrong. i got into this whole genesis of writing "the war on football" was a study that was put together by the national institutes for occupational safety and hea